Lives in Cricket No 24 - Edgar Willsher

23 career Willsher joined the great ‘barnacle’ among the élite group of cricketers who have opened both the batting and bowling in the same match. It was not until the last eight years of his career that his name regularly appeared in the lower half of the batting order in first-class cricket. At the start of his career, he was seen as almost equally promising with both bat and ball, and it is to that expectant era that we must now return. Methods